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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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[โ€“] PugJesus 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, lord, where to begin? It started poorly, with worse-than-average spinny Hollywood battles, which should have been a bad sign right off the bat. But it proceeded to entirely skip over some of the most interesting parts of Caesar's life while blatantly misrepresenting the lead-up to the First Triumvirate, displaying a poor understanding and characterization of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar as well as the general political and social dynamics of the Late Republic.

Also, Caesar had a beard, very undisciplined, 0/10

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But beards are in.... The focus group said so! How else will we know he's a handsome man of the people?

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